Polish Armoured Trains

"Poland had only few armoured trains, but their oficers and soldiers were fighting well. Again and again they were emerging from a cover in thick forests, disturbing German lines"

from the history of Wehrmacht: "Wie das Gesetz es befehl"

This page is devoted to little-known subject of the Polish armoured trains.
As we were starting in 1999, there were very few publications on the Polish trains, mostly quite old, all of them partial or too general, so we had to reconstruct the trains' compostion and service from partial information, often contradictory. Our work was often pioneering. The situation improved somehow in last years, they became more popular subject and new facts and photographs were revealed, but still there are no reliable publications to cover all the subject of the Polish trains, especially from a technical point of view. Therefore, the information on these pages sometimes may not be most correct - this is only a hobby project, maintained in a free time, without own research of source documents. We are still looking for the new photos and information so that we can improve the pages. Due to lack of time, updates are not frequent recently, but the pages will be updated according to newest state of knowledge in the future, so be sure to check the newest versions (see what's new).

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Armoured trains of 1939

The Polish Army had 10 regular armoured trains in 1939, and all took part in World War II. At that time, they carried numbers only, despite they were commonly known under their older names. The pages describe also their earlier and further service.

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These pages are dedicated to the memory of Janusz Magnuski (1933-1999), great Polish expert and researcher of armoured weapons, especially armoured trains; author of numerous books and articles published also as "James Grandsen".